21 Finalists for 2011 National Book Awards

Nominees

Oct 14, 2011

The announcement of the nominees for the 2011 National Book Awards had an extra dose of drama this year as the National Book Foundation added a sixth selection to the Young People’s Literature category after the original broadcast over Oregon Public Broadcasting’s program Think Out Loud had only five nominees.

The NBF cited “miscommunication” between the NBA judges and staff for leaving out Chime by Franny Billingsley (Penguin/Dial Books) in the original selection. After the judges heard the broadcast, they told the NBF staff of the omission. The addition of a sixth nominee in YPL makes a total of 21 NBA finalists this year.

The adult nominations include a healthy mix of nominees from large and small presses with Bellevue Literary Press, publisher of last year’s Pulitzer Prize–winning Tinkers, receiving a fiction nomination for Andrew Krivak’s The Sojourn.

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